This usually means that the program’s binary will be copied to a directory on your PATH, the program’s manual page will be copied to a directory on your MANPATH, and any other files it depends on will be safely stored in the appropriate place. The make install command will copy the built program, and its libraries and documentation, to the correct locations.
Now that the software is built and ready to run, the files can be copied to their final destinations. Instead it comes with a template called Makefile.in and the configure script produces a customised Makefile specific to your system. The tarball you download usually doesn’t include a finished Makefile. This runs a series of tasks defined in a Makefile to build the finished program from its source code. Once configure has done its job, we can invoke make to build the software. In these cases the configure script will establish that your system does indeed have a C compiler, and find out what it’s called and where to find it.
Unix programs are often written in C, so we’ll usually need a C compiler to build them.
It makes sure all of the dependencies for the rest of the build and install process are available, and finds out whatever it needs to know to use those dependencies. The configure script is responsible for getting ready to build the software on your specific system. There are three distinct steps in this process: It was time to dig into the Unix Grimoire and find out what the incantation does. Recently I’ve been building my own Unix tools, and I wanted to tap into this standard install process not only is it familiar to many Unix users, it’s also a great starting point for building a package for Homebrew and the various Linux and BSD package managers.
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